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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We are being called for a vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: If the Minister says we are okay, you may go on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister and the Department officials for assisting us in our consideration of the horse and greyhound fund regulations 2022. In accordance with Standing Orders, a message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil and the Clerk of the Seanad to say the committee has completed its consideration of the regulations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine has completed its consideration of the following regulations: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022. In accordance with Standing Order 75 the following message will be sent to the Seanad: The Joint Committee on Agriculture,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: At the committee's private meeting on 2 November, it was agreed that EU legislative proposals, COM (2022) 134, COM (2022) 242, COM (2022) 296 and COM (2022) 305, warranted further scrutiny. As part of the scrutiny, representatives of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine have been invited to today's committee meeting to brief us on these proposals. I will again read the note...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I will interrupt Mr. Savage, if I may. Does Deputy Fitzmaurice have to leave the meeting to attend a vote in the Dáil on an amendment to the Finance Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I have to attend the vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: I apologise to Mr. Savage but there is a vote upcoming in the Dáil. We will have to suspend the meeting. We will be back after the vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Mr. Savage may continue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: It was Ms Coyle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We will not fall out over that, but we will give credit where it should lodge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Is it agreed that the committee will discuss the proposals further at its next private meeting? The Department has assured us that it will come back to provide a further briefing when more negotiations take place. We rarely bring in the Department to discuss COMs but we did so because we have concerns about these proposals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Extra tracks are opening in the UK. The demand for greyhounds from Ireland in the UK has never been stronger. It is hard to tell what British breeding policy will be but, as in horse racing, the best stud dogs are here so the vast majority of dogs will always be bred here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: If the Department feeds the information to Ms Rebecca Coyle, she will keep the committee informed. If we think we need to have another discussion on a proposal, we will bring the officials in for another discussion at that point. On Senator Daly's point, Ms Coyle goes through all of the COMs and brings to the committee those that are relevant. The COMs arrived on our table a couple of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: Is that okay with Ms Coyle? Yes. Ms Coyle is our policy adviser and does all of the work on COMs. We can liaise with her and then evaluate when we need to have another discussion on any proposals.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (23 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: We will discuss these legislative proposals at the committee's next private meeting. The clerk to the committee has come forward with a mechanism that we might be able to feed into the process and we will discuss that at the next private meeting. I thank the officials for coming in this evening and briefing us. The committee will next meet in public on Wednesday, 30 November at 5.30...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (22 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 230. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a 2+2 lane dual carriageway is being considered for the N24 road improvement scheme between Cahir and Pallasgreen in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58060/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Jackie Cahill: 427. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a single person who is in receipt of the disability allowance loses their right to the allowance if they get married; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57441/22]